That the necessaries and comforts of life are to be bought, by those who need them, more cheaply in a market supplied with Chinese labor, is not deemed worthy of consideration; the great fact which demands attention is that Patrick must forego his numerous holidays, his whiskey, and his devotion to politics; must settle down to, and accomplish, a vast amount of honest and skillful labor, if he shall successfully compete with the Chinese, which is an evil the two political parties must promise to abate as the condition of having his support at the polls. The fact comes back upon us that the ballot is necessary, under our Government, for the defence of every class of citizens; and the education of the voter is a necessary defence of the Government against the ignorance of the ballot. Neither the wisdom nor the virtue of the statesman can be relied upon, for he everywhere becomes a demagogue, if demagogy continues to be the road to office, as it is everywhere among ignorant voters. Our salvation must be found, not in the virtue of the statesmen, but in the intelligence and virtue of the people. * * * * * INDIANS, RESERVATIONS AND RAILROADS. There are in all one hundred and twenty Indian reservations scattered over the country, chiefly west of the Mississippi River, aggregating more than one square mile of land to each man, woman and child of the 252,897 Indians, exclusive of those in Alaska, which compose our Indian population. This is equivalent to giving three times the area of New York State to one-half the population of Brooklyn; only these people do not hold this land in severalty, and, therefore, are tempted by its abundance to roam over it as hunters, and are discouraged from building on it and cultivating it as owners because of the uncertain tenure by which it is held. That there has been such a decided tendency toward civilized life, under all such discouragements, as is shown by the last Report of the Indian Commissioners, is most encouraging. The five tribes longest settled in the Indian Territory, now called civilized, number about 60,000 souls. More than half of these can read. All wear citizens’ dress. They have a school-house for every 312, and a church-building for every 458 inhabitants. During the past year, they cultivated more than 22 acres of land for each family of five persons, raised more than 263 bushels of grain and vegetables, and owned five and one-sixth horses or mules for each family. This favorable showing would appear even more encouraging from a full exhibit of all the statistics given in this Report, to which our readers are referred.